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KY_EnviroGuy

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42. Nance, in reality all that you cited leads back to those who fund the Republican Party...
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 09:04 AM
Jan 2022

and they mostly remain hidden behind a very thick curtain out of public view.

All these miscreant Rethug politicians (including tRump) and their minion voter base are just window dressing distractions from the core of our problem: big money's control and influence on our political systems.

Without those huge sums corporations and those of high wealth have invested in think tanks, public and social media and our elections, the Republican Party would have long ago been relegated to the margins of our news cycles (like Bob Dole's clockwork rituals in the '60s before news cameras to bitch about taxes).

We're living in a warped form of fascism call plutocracy that I fear is very fragile.

Let us endeavor to pull back and destroy that curtain of concealment.......

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Nance, in reality all that you cited leads back to those who fund the Republican Party... KY_EnviroGuy Jan 2022 #42
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